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HIV/AIDS
New HIV/AIDS data have been reported by scientists at McGill University, AIDS Center
October 28th, 2008
According to recent research from Montreal, Canada, "With the growing diversity of the HIV pandemic, routine genotyping is an important tool for monitoring viral subtype as well as drug resistance. In this regard, numerous subtyping tools and drug resistance algorithms are available online." "However, there are discrepancies in the use of these online tools in the designation of HIV-1 subtypes or recombinant forms that may have an impact on drug susceptibility profiles. Indeed, inconsistencies in some of these tools may lead to a false designation of dual infection and/or superinfection. In this case study, we evaluated the sequence diversity of an infection that was...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2008-10-28)
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